Getter/setter in constructor

Question

I recently read about the fact that there is a possibility of defining getters/setters in JavaScript. It seems extremely helpful - the setter is a kind of \'helper\' which c

Answer 1

Update for ES6 -- have a look at section 19.3.1 of Alex Rauschmayer's book Exploring ES6 http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_maps-sets.html#sec_weakmaps-private-data which demonstrates how to use WeakMaps with getters and setters to hold private data. Combining with section 16.2.2.3 http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_classes.html#leanpub-auto-getters-and-setters would result in something like

# module test_WeakMap_getter.js
var _MyClassProp = new WeakMap();
class MyClass {
    get prop() {
        return _MyClassProp.get( this ); 
    }
    set prop(value) {
        _MyClassProp.set( this, value );
    }
}
var mc = new MyClass();
mc.prop = 5 ;
console.log( 'My value is', mc.prop );

$ node --use_strict test_WeakMap_getter.js 
My value is 5